BBC History UK - December 2010 (Repost)
BBC History UK - December 2010
English | 100 pages | PDF | 44 MB
English | 100 pages | PDF | 44 MB
War on the rails
Christian Wolmar considers the impact of railways on the way industrial nations waged war.
Why the west rules… for now
Ian Morris examines how, for two centuries, ‘the west’ has exercised global dominance without parallel in history.
Terror on the streets of Edwardian London
Clive Bloom tells the story of the infamous Siege of Sidney Street, which took place 100 years ago this December.
Beyond the grave
BBC History Magazine’s Rob Attar explores how Egyptians used the Book of the Dead to ensure a speedy and successful path through the next world.
A matter of taste
Amanda Vickory charts the development of ‘taste’ in the Georgian period.
Pearl Harbor in films
Mark Glancy takes a look at three very different films about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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